Food of Ireland
Irish cooking is built on potatoes, dairy, lamb, beef and seafood from the Atlantic. Home baking is central, with soda bread and brown bread on most tables, and butter and cheese from grass-fed cattle. Stews, boiled dinners and one-pot meals are warm family favorites, and tea is the everyday drink.
- Main dishes (10)
- Breakfast (3)
- Soups (2)
- Salads (1)
- Breads (3)
- Desserts and sweets (4)
- Drinks (3)
- Fruits and produce (4)
Staples
- potatoes
- lamb
- butter
- cabbage
- oats
- seafood
- buttermilk
Signature flavors
- parsley
- thyme
- mustard
- butter
- dillisk
- onion
Main dishes
Lamb, potatoes and onion simmered slowly.
Key ingredients: lamb, potatoes, onion, carrotsFull guide →Mashed potatoes with cabbage or kale and butter.
Key ingredients: potatoes, cabbage, butter, scallionsMashed potatoes with scallions and a well of butter.
Key ingredients: potatoes, scallions, butter, milk
Potato pancakes from the north of Ireland.
Key ingredients: grated potato, mashed potato, flour, buttermilk
Sausages, bacon and potatoes in a gentle broth.
Key ingredients: sausages, bacon, potatoes, onion
Boiled bacon with cabbage and parsley sauce.
Key ingredients: bacon joint, cabbage, potatoes, parsley sauce
Minced lamb topped with mashed potato.
Key ingredients: ground lamb, potatoes, peasFull guide →A creamy chowder of fish, shellfish and potato.
Key ingredients: salmon, haddock, mussels, potatoes, cream
A coastal chipper favorite.
Key ingredients: cod, potatoes, batterFull guide →
Boiled pig's trotters, a traditional country dish.
Key ingredients: pig's trotters, saltBreakfast
Eggs, bacon, sausages, black and white pudding, soda bread.
Key ingredients: eggs, bacon, sausages, soda breadFull guide →
Slow-cooked Irish oatmeal with honey.
Key ingredients: steel-cut oats, milk, honey
Griddle-cooked potato bread, fried for the fry.
Key ingredients: mashed potato, flour, butterSoups
A velvety soup of two staples.
Key ingredients: potatoes, leeks, stock, cream
A spring soup of foraged nettles.
Key ingredients: nettles, potato, onion, stockSalads
Smoked salmon with brown bread and cucumber.
Key ingredients: smoked salmon, brown bread, lemon, cucumberBreads
A yeast-free loaf raised with buttermilk and baking soda.
Key ingredients: flour, buttermilk, baking soda, saltFull guide →
A nutty whole wheat loaf.
Key ingredients: whole wheat flour, buttermilk, oats
A tea-soaked raisin loaf.
Key ingredients: raisins, tea, flour, sugarDesserts and sweets
A tender cake with chunks of apple, served with custard.
Key ingredients: apples, flour, butter, sugar
Baked custard with buttered bread.
Key ingredients: bread, milk, eggs, raisins
Warm scones with jam and cream.
Key ingredients: flour, butter, buttermilkFull guide →
A sweet-tart pastry with fresh rhubarb.
Key ingredients: rhubarb, pastry, sugarDrinks
Strong, malty black tea drunk with milk.
Key ingredients: black tea, milk
Rich hot chocolate with cream.
Key ingredients: chocolate, milk, cream
A tangy cultured drink used in baking.
Key ingredients: buttermilkFruits and produce
Orchard apples from Armagh and Tipperary.
Key ingredients: cakes, crumble, sauce
Wild hedgerow berries picked in late summer.
Key ingredients: crumble, jam, pie
Sweet Irish strawberries in early summer.
Key ingredients: cream, jam, scones
Edible red seaweed gathered along the coast.
Key ingredients: snack, soups, breadDish guides from Ireland
More cuisines of Northern Europe
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- Isle of Man
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- Lithuania
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- Svalbard and Jan Mayen
- Sweden
- United Kingdom
Descriptions written by Intercontinental Chef. Dishes are listed as commonly eaten today; many are shared across neighbouring countries.
- Irish Beef Stew (34046928633): A Healthier Michigan from Detroit, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Boxty triangle: さえぼー, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Irish Coddle: Shushshello, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Bacon and Cabbage in Ireland: Zackgallagher, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Homerton College - Shepherd's pie (cropped): Oxfordian Kissuth, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Fish and chips blackpool: Matthias Meckel, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Crubeens 2008: Helen, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Full English breakfast (cropped): Joadl, CC BY-SA 3.0 at (Wikimedia Commons)
- Oatmeal (1): Renee Comet (Photographer), Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Homemade potato bread, half: Daniel J. Layton, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- St John Restaurant, Smithfield, London (3445306202): Ewan Munro from London, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- 2014 smoked salmon and egg salad toasted baguette: Takeaway, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Irish soda bread (58 of 68) (cropped): Wheeler Cowperthwaite, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Kommissbrot: Benutzer:Rainer Zenz, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Barmbrack: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Apple juicy cake (2): Roozitaa, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Bread pudding June 2020: Philafrenzy, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Scone varieties: User:Dave souza, CC BY-SA 2.5 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Rheum rhabarbarum.2006-04-27.uellue: Dieter Weber (User:Uellue), CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Milk in Irish Breakfast tea: Lexane Sirac, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Chocolate cup Chantilly porcelain 18th century: World Imaging, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Buttermilk-(right)-and-Milk-(left): Ukko-wc, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- 95apple: Agricultural Research Service (Research agent of United States Department of Agriculture), Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Ripe, ripening, and green blackberries: Ragesoss, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Garden strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) single2: Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Palmeria palmata: Cwmhiraeth, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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